When Feng Suqin returned to Xu's mansion, she found Xu Liang to report on the day's negotiations. Xu Liang listened and asked in surprise: "So you came back like this without talking about anything this day?" ”

Feng Suqin nodded and said, "Yes, Brother Xu, I also feel strange, when we went early in the morning, Second Master Tan heard that we were going to talk about the merger, he was quite happy at first, shouting in the courtyard to let people prepare materials, but after a while, Second Master Tan seemed to have suddenly changed his mind, and only called the traitor Lin Youcai of Liang Ji to talk to us, but he disappeared, and he didn't show up again until we left Tan Ji." ”

Xu Liang also wondered, what is going on? The two brothers of the Tan family should be eager for the two families to merge as soon as possible, why did Liang Ji take the initiative here, but Tan Ji retreated.

"Brother Xu, do you think we are too proactive and scared Second Master Tan?"

"Huh?" Xu Liang was stunned, thought about it, shook his head and smiled: "It shouldn't be, ha, don't care about him, our attitude has already come out, now Tan Ji is not in a hurry, then we don't have to worry." ”

Knowing the attitude of the Tan family, Xu Liang had the bottom of his heart, and he put the merger aside for the time being. Deal with Governor Sun and He Tongju and his party with peace of mind.

Xu Liang assigned additional tasks to the three classes of officials to strictly guard against stubbornness and prevent some people with a bad mentality from saying things that should not be said in front of the two officials, which would bring unnecessary negative impact to Wang Zhixian's preliminary examination.

However, the precautions that were supposed to be leakless ended up leaking.

On this day, as soon as the official sedan chair of Governor Sun's mansion stopped in front of the yamen of Jianchang County, a black shadow suddenly rushed to the sedan chair and shouted: "Lord Futai wants to be the master of the grass people!" The grass people's daughter is unjust! ”

The soldiers guarding the official sedan chair protected the sedan chair and looked at the old man kneeling in front of the sedan chair and shouting grievances, but the Sun Governor's Mansion in the sedan chair did not make a sound for a long time.

The old grandson thought that the Lord of Futai didn't hear it, so he knocked his head a few times in a row, and shouted grievances with a sad face while kowtowing.

However, the old grandson cried and screamed for a while, but there was no sound in the local official sedan chair when he stopped steadily.

The old grandson chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that he had worshiped the wrong Bodhisattva this time, and this Sun Governor's Mansion was also a good thing with the officials in Jianchang County, seeing that several soldiers in the sedan chair had impatient looks on their faces, and several passers-by who were watching the excitement on the side of the road gradually surrounded the sedan chair.

Lao Sun's heart is horizontal, damn, Lao Tzu has made trouble to this point today, so he simply made the matter known to everyone, so that those who are officials will not end well.

Thinking of this, the old grandson closed his eyes and kowtowed heavily to the sedan chair, and howled in severe pain: "My lord, Lord Sun, you have to be the master of the grass people, the grass people's daughter is only seventeen years old, and the unknown one is gone......

"Who is making a noise at the entrance of the yamen!" A majestic cold drink interrupted the old grandson's howl. When the old grandson heard this, he looked up at the entrance of the yamen, and saw that Xu Liangxu, the chief secretary of Jianchang County, was wearing a green official robe, with a strict face, and was walking towards him step by step with steady steps.

Old Sun Tou's face instantly became cloudy, he looked at Xu Liang who was approaching, turned to the direction of the official sedan chair, his heart was horizontal, he threw himself in front of the official sedan chair, pulled the sedan curtain and cried: "My lord, the grass people are wronged...... Belch? ”

With the miserable cry of the old grandson, he lifted the falling sedan curtain with one hand, looked into the sedan chair, and couldn't help but be stunned, the official sedan chair was empty, and Sun Yiping, the prefect of Nankang, was not in the sedan chair at all.

Miserable! The old grandson screamed in his heart, he had been guarding it for four or five days, but he still hadn't seen Governor Sun's mansion.

The old grandson slowly turned his head and looked at Xu Liang, the chief bookkeeper of Jianchang, who seemed to be smiling, and wanted to cry without tears.

"Heh, it turned out to be Lord Xu, the grass people, see, I have seen Lord Xu......"

"Yo, isn't this the old grandson of Hengfeng Town? Why is there a big incident in the family, and I want to report the case to the Lord Futai? Hey, that's really unfortunate, Lord Futai went to President Tan's house yesterday as a guest, it is said that he drank a few more glasses, and he will not come back today, and now he is only returning to the house in a sedan chair. Xu Liang stood in front of the old grandson and said with regret on his face.

"Hehe, I see." The old grandson squeezed out a little smile, struggled to get up, arched his hand towards Xu Liang, and said, "Then the grass people will go home first, and when the master of Futai returns to the ya, the grass people will come over." Lord Xu, say goodbye......"

"Hey, old grandson, don't be in a hurry to leave." Xu Liang turned around and stopped in front of Lao Sun's head, and said: "Lord Futai hasn't come back, but Jianchang's Wang Zhixian, Lu County Cheng, and Master Xu's book are still in the yamen, Lao Sun, you are so wronged, how can this official, as Jianchang's parent official, turn a blind eye and ignore it?" Come on, quickly help the old grandson into the county office, and the official wants to listen to his old man's grievances! ”

The two catchers responded quickly, one left and one right, sandwiched the old grandson's head in the middle, and walked towards the county yali after clamping the old grandson's head.

"Hey, Master Xu, this, this is not appropriate...... Alas, in fact, the grass people don't have any big grievances, and it's the same whether they say it or not...... Hey, the two poor masters stop ......"

Xu Liang sneered and listened to the old grandson's crying explanation disappear into the county office, turned to face the seven or eight people who gathered around to watch the excitement, and smiled: "What's the matter, how many people also have grievances to go to the county government to complain?" ”

Before Xu Liang's words fell, seven or eight onlookers scattered with a bang.

In the Jianchang County Ya Master Bookroom, four people with knives stared at the old grandson who was shrunk in the chair, and Xu Liangxu, the chief bookkeeper of Jianchang, sat on the desk and stared at the old grandson with slight squints.

The old grandson glanced at Xu Liang with a weak heart, and then at the knife catchers who were standing with fists around him, one of them was quick to grin, and the old grandson was frightened and quickly hung his head.

Xu Liang didn't speak, just stared at the old grandson so faintly.

There was silence in the main bookroom, but it was so quiet that it made the old grandson panic. The old grandson found that he was uncomfortable no matter how he sits, beads of sweat came out of his forehead and flowed down, and finally the old grandson rolled down from the chair and fell to the ground, fell down in front of Xu Liang's desk, and shouted with a crying voice: "My lord, spare my life!" The grass people don't dare anymore! ”

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Xu Liang's voice came from above the desk, with a cold tone, "Don't you have a grievance to sue?" Why did you shout for mercy? Let's talk about grievances, this official has been sitting and waiting for most of the day! ”

"My lord, the grass people are not ...... There is no grievance......" the old grandson said in a low voice, and after speaking, he put his head on the ground and fell to the ground.

"Say!" Xu Liang's voice suddenly became higher, very fierce, "What grievances!" ”

The old grandson's whole body was trembling, and he banged his head so loudly that he didn't dare to come out.

Xu Liang listened to more than a dozen banging kowtows with a cold face, and then said quietly: "I said Lao Sun, what are you kowtowing inexplicably, let's talk about grievances, if there is no grievance, you will run to the street to stop the official sedan chair, that is to tease the court officials, and the crime is not small!" ”

"My lord, the grass people really have no grievances...... "The old grandson's intestines were all remorseful, and he raised his head and cried with a sad face.

"Huh?!" Xu Liang snorted coldly, and his face sank.

"Grass people......" Seeing Xu Liang's face getting more and more ugly, the old grandson was frightened in his heart, and said with trembling lips: "Actually, the grass people want to come...... Come to sue the prefect...... A few days ago, the two ends of the grass people's house ...... The pig died suddenly, and the grass people were afraid of the plague and wanted to ask the people of Futai to take more precautions. ”

"Write it!" Xu Liang said to the person in charge of recording at the desk: "The old grandson of Hengfeng Town deliberately went to Jianchang County on the tenth day of the first month of March to inform Jianchang County that there might be a sudden swine fever in Jianchang County, because two pigs died in his family!" ”

After the capture was almost finished, Xu Liang stretched out the record in front of the old grandson and asked, "Old grandson, you can see if what is written on it is true, and if it is true, press the handprint." ”

The old grandson raised his head, his forehead had already turned blue and purple, he blinked his eyes, and said, "Grass people, illiterate." ”

Xu Liang pushed over a box of ink clay on the desk, and said coldly: "Press the handprint!" ”

The old grandson was helpless and obediently pressed his handprint on the record.

Xu Liang took back the record, put it in the drawer, sat back in the chair leisurely, looked at his old grandson, and said, "Old grandson, have you received the twenty taels of pension silver given by the county government?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, you got it." The old grandson said with a bitter face.

"So, are you a new daughter-in-law? Did your son marry a daughter-in-law? ”

The old grandson was silent, squeaky and squeaky.

"What does this official ask you for!" Xu Liang shouted coldly.

"My daughter-in-law is married, but my daughter-in-law is not married yet......" The old grandson lowered his head and whispered.

"Why don't you give your son a daughter-in-law?"

"Money, not enough ......"

"How can it not be enough?" Xu Liang was surprised: "The county government gave ten taels, and the official also paid ten taels privately, where did the money go?" ”

The old grandson's head hung lower, and he whispered in a cower: "On the day of the marriage, I lost the game of pai gow......"

Xu Liang got up on the ground, pointed at him and scolded: "Come on, put this old bastard in prison!" ”

After the two arrests were about to escort the old grandson down, Xu Liang snorted angrily and circled around the desk several times, and finally shouted outside the house: "Go and call the head of Yan Zhutou to the official." ”

Yan Qi, the head catcher of Jianchang County, quickly ran to the main bookkeeper and respectfully asked, "My lord, are you looking for me?" ”

Xu Liang handed over the list and said solemnly: "This list is all the people who lost their daughter's family a while ago, you go to find two boats, and get the people on the list, including his family, to Poyang Lake for sightseeing, and you are not allowed to come back if you don't get the greeting of the official!" ”

"Uh, my lord, what are you?" Yan Qi was very surprised, he was confused for a while, he didn't understand what Xu Liang meant, he glanced at Xu Liang carefully, and made a gesture of cutting down with one palm.

Xu Liang raised his eyes in surprise and looked at Yan Qi, waved his hand again and again, and said: "No, no, no, you misunderstood what the official meant, the official said sightseeing, it was really sightseeing, and those people still had to be sent back to Jianchang in their entirety after sightseeing." ”

After speaking, Xu Liang gritted his teeth and scolded: "There are really all kinds of people in this group, they think they have little money when they give money, and they want to make another mistake when they add money!" Grandma's, all of them were brought to Poyang Lake for Lao Tzu to stop the meeting, and when the prefect Sun left, he would come back to clean them up! ”